Friday, February 29, 2008

Happy Leap Day

To celebrate, we did something that truly only happens about every four years: two fun activities in one day. We went to the park with the Stringhams (no pictorial proof of this since the battery on my camera died). Then we toured the renovated State Capitol with Robbie's cub scout group and the Stringham cousins. I feel like Ainsley looks in this picture from yesterday afternoon—tired! She is WAY too busy to be bothered with naps, although she really still needs one. Most of the time I try to keep her up and put her to bed early just because she usually wakes up so grumpy, but sometime by late afternoon it's not worth the fight.

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here's the story:

I was interviewed for a newpaper article about kids and sleep, and quoted as saying something like "when I'm tired, I feel like supervising from the couch." Ever since, it's been our catch phrase for slacker parenting. Ironically, I only had one child at the time and we were practically attached at the hip. Now that I have four older kids, they spend chunks of time playing without even the benefit of me watching from the couch. However, I do try to come running if it sounds like there might be blood. Somehow they have all thrived in spite of me.